The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #17684   Message #848997
Posted By: *#1 PEASANT*
17-Dec-02 - 12:31 PM
Thread Name: The Purpose of Copyright
Subject: RE: The Purpose of Copyright
Copyright is death to the folk tradition and process.
This can not be disputed.
There is life and then there is work.
Work is that which is not ordinairly done as life.
Music should always be done as part of the lifeway.

Today there are far too many "professional" musicians. Human juke boxes who work only when paid and demand control over the process.

When you put a song into my head It is mine.
If you did not want the song to go into my head give me ear plugs
or go away.

No human being is able to exactly copy anything. So copyright is an inaccurate term.

If you dont understand the folk transmission process or folk experience you will continue to feel that copyright has any place in it.

Conrad-Peasant